Security analysis of an untrusted source for quantum key distribution: Passive approach

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhao, Yi ^a,b   Qi, Bing ^a   Lo, Hoi Kwong ^a   Qian, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ROUTING; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BEAM SPLITTERS; DATA SIZE; INPUT PULSE; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PASSIVE ESTIMATION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION RESULT; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; UNCONDITIONAL SECURITY;

NETWORK SECURITY; NUMBER THEORY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 77649166917     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/023024     Document Type: Article

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